The Wahpeton times., 1887-05-12

trenched behind vote and public
sentiment that have remained as
adamant to this day. Our errand
stated, we received as reply
Gentlemen. I am not aware that
the Episcopal Church has as yet
formulated any policy on the sub
ject of tempera nce." And thus we
were bowed out.
No policy on the subject Of tenn
perance up to twelve years ago!
This is the confession of that church
which stigmatizes all others as mon
grel, and claims that within it's
communion alone covenan ted grace
is found-that, confined to the same
narrow limits, the twelve apostles,
in multiplied form as it were, in
spirit and power, in work and
function, are, and to the end of time
are to continue to be regnant; a
confession that, while for upwards
of half a century the other denomi.
nations of the one true church have
been awake to the evils of intemper-
ance and under the lead of their
grand old Lyman Beechers have
created a temperance literature that
is monumental in all civilized lands
and while, Notwithstanding all ef-
forts civil and religious to stay the
desolating tide, 10000 of Americas
best sons have annually gone down
to untimely graves, she, the church
of exclusive claim, the Lord chosen
for watch and ward, has been asleep
No wonder John Wesley and his CO.
adjutors, like men in a house ad-
mitting no air, burst wide her door.
Better life without than death with
in. Better less of sacrament" and
more of sacrifice. And 1 sub
nit it whether after Rip Van Wrinkle
finally rubs open his eyes and takes
in somewhat of the wonders around,
in opening his mouth also, as open
it he should, he better not do so
more in praise and less in blame of
those at whose hands such changes
have been wrought. The man who
skulks the battle is not the one to
tell how it should and would have
gone had he only been present. Such
a one better follow up the foe or
pick lint.
2. Does he rightly represent his
own denomination Z? A clergy
man Of that church, now of this
territory with whom fell in, few
days since, on the cars, told me that
in his opinion majority of Eplsco-
palians in the United States are total
abstainers. l think his estimate
too high, but allowing it to be ap-
proximately correct, as 1 suppose it
is, we are forced to conclude that
our rector is wide the mark in as
serting that his so-called "new tenn
perance is certainly new in this coun-
try" So far from that it is the cast
Off skin of years gone by even among
Episcopalians, while to the rest of
US. the figure being dropped, it be-
longs to the long exploded theories
Of Il memorably contested past. No,
he does not fairly represent his own
denomination. During the last ten
years that denomination has been
doing advanced work. Condemning
her for her tarliness, l would not
forget that she is in the field, though
her coming has been at the eleventh
hour. There is sturdy stuff in Epis-
copalians. Let them not be ira
duced in the house of their friends.
A part of the one great church
whose glory is to fill the whole earth,
/ am jealous of their honor. Indeed
l have always been hopeful of Epis-
copalians. Boundless in their as
sumptions and unspeakable in their
arrogance, there is yet that about
them which when separated from
this alloy shines fourth as the pure
gold of the Kingdom.
3. Which portion of the COM
munity, on the whole, does he sup
pose his sermon most pleases, the
workers in the temperance cause on
the saloonists ? the sot and the
gambler or their heart-broken wives
and distitute children I? In Ottawa,
ILL.,. few years since, to the inf :
mite chagrin Of his parishioners,
much such sermon was preached
by the Baptist pastor, the Rev. Mr..
Mcpherson, himself an importation
from Canada-a good enough place
to come from, one would think, pro.
vided, Oh coming, a cold water bath
he first indulged in. But he this as
it may, the sermon was no sooner
understood by the SalOOnists of the